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7 months old behaviour

Hi all,
My 7 old months female puppy recently is having in the evening pretty intense zoomies followed by a very hard bitting. I’m trying to immediately cut the behaviour and stop her, but I do wonder what could cause that? She gets enough rest plus mental stimulation. My trainer suggested to immediately take her to crate to isolate her, but she’s resisting so much and I don’t want to ruin our trust and relationship, any advice will be highly appreciated! Thanks

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u/Strong_Minute1282 — 8 days ago
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How to teach boundaries?

Hi all! About a month ago we welcomed our first Dutch Shepherd and we have a question about boundaries.
For context: We've been having regular sessions with a dog trainer, but she leans toward aversion-based methods, which doesn't feel quite right for our girl (I think). Our puppy is very human-oriented, and she comes from lines where her parents were involved in rescue and herding work and agility sports.

I'd love to hear from those of you who've been through this - how long did it take you to work through the process to teach your dogs boundaries and „no”. The tricky part is that any correction seems to wind her up even more rather than settle her. And on a more pressing note: how did you handle biting? Right now it's getting quite intense, and we're doing our best to manage it by leashing her and ending all interaction when it happens but I'm curious whether that approach actually worked for others, or if there's something more effective we should be trying.

u/Strong_Minute1282 — 5 months ago